SF News SFist Turns 20: Here's to 20 Years of Gossip, Snark, and Covering This Beautiful City Hey everybody, SFist is celebrating its 20th anniversary this week! To honor the occasion, we look back with fondness on these two madcap decades of this site, and the writers who made us the best smart-ass news publication in town.
SF News Memorial for 45th Anniversary of Jonestown in East Oakland Saturday Remembers Victims, Honors Survivors A memorial event for the Jonestown massacre brought out survivors and victims' family members, although some disagreed about the inclusion of Jones' name on a memorial plaque.
Arts & Entertainment Celebrate Pier 39's Adorable Sea Lions This Weekend (Photo courtesy of the Sea Lion Center) All weekend (and through Monday) our city's sea lions will be celebrated at Pier 39, where they arrived 26 years ago. As the story goes, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Suppenküche Staff To Dress As Gnomes Because Why Not Almost 20 years ago, Suppenküche came to Hayes Valley and changed the neighborhood for good. This Thursday, the noted German restaurant and biergarten will celebrate the big 2-0 by a) having a party
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: 1906 Quake Survivor Winnie Hook Winnie Hook, 106 year old survivor of the 1906 earthquake, by David Gallagher.
SF News Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster: Where Were You? Today, January 28, marks the 25th anniversary of the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster. Back in 1986, the Challenger came apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew
misc Happy Anniversary, Great Nitroglycerin Explosion of 1866! "Terrible Explosion and Loss of Life in San Francisco" roared the headline in the Placer Herald describing what happened 144 years ago today after stored nitroglycerin boxes at the Wells Fargo and Co.
SF News Happy 40th Anniversary, Moon Landing Forty years ago today, inside a Culver City movie studio, the lunar module parked on the alleged surface of the Moon, and out came a couple of guys who made history as the
